☆, Chapter 62 The Secret of the Wang Family
"My name is Bai Zhiqiu, and the person in your photo is indeed me. However, the adopted son of Wang Zhenjun you are looking for is not me, but my father." The boy spoke slowly.
"Your father, then you are..." Yu Jiuyin looked at Rongqing worriedly.
"Well, I was born a devil just like this venerable. But there is too little of my father's in my blood, and he loved me very much, so most of the time, I am just an ordinary child, without many abilities of a devil. I didn't even know I was dead when I died." Bai Zhiqiu said, his body trembling slightly.
Yu Jiuyin reached out and held him in her arms, gently stroking his head. Bai Zhiqiu subconsciously grabbed Yu Jiuyin's sleeve and moved closer to him.
"My father was a ghost child raised by Wang Zhenjun. From the moment of adoption, it was a deception." Bai Zhiqiu closed his eyes, not wanting to recall the painful past inherited from his father.
Not every ghost child who has never been stained with human blood is protected by someone or dies accidentally. Another type of ghost child dies because they are too young and die in confusion, without realizing that they were killed by someone.
Bai Zhiqiu's father is like this.
Bai Zhiqiu's mother died of complications during childbirth, and even more tragically, his father also died in a car accident when he was five years old.
"After his death, I was finally able to glimpse some of my father's memories. Wang Zhenjun had taken the initiative to find him, and even helped to arrange my grandfather's funeral. But in fact, my grandfather's death was caused by someone Wang Zhenjun bribed, simply because he liked my father's birth date."
"How dare he do such a heinous thing as Gui Tong's wealth accumulation?" Yu Jiuyin almost immediately understood Wang Zhenjun's plan. However, he could not understand why Wang Zhenjun would do such a thing.
First, the common people have no way of knowing about ghost children's wealth accumulation. Even for celestial masters, it's common knowledge. However, to prevent malicious schemes, the practice of ghost children accumulating wealth has been tacitly banned within the metaphysical community for centuries. Each school has its own specific regulations, prohibiting the raising of ghost children without special reasons.
Furthermore, a ghost child without resentment is rare. The ghost child in Yu Jiuyin's haunted house was born thanks to his encounter with Rongqing and Hongyi, while the Lingdang siblings were qualified only after Yu Jiuyin purified their resentment. However, Bai Zhiqiu's father was clearly different. Since Bai Zhiqiu was born a ghost, his father must have already become a powerful ghost, and a very powerful one at that. The journey from a ghost child without resentment to a resentful ghost is self-evident.
What's more, if Bai Zhiqiu's words were true, then Wang Zhenjun had obviously asked someone to calculate it and knew that Bai Zhiqiu's father's birth date and horoscope were most compatible with his family, so he came here deliberately to find someone.
Wang Zhenjun has basically violated a taboo in the metaphysical circle. According to the rules of the circle, any heavenly master can punish Wang Zhenjun for his behavior.
Rongqing obviously guessed this and frowned as well.
However, Bai Zhiqiu's story is still very long.
In simple terms, it is the story of a gray boy who was picked up by his uncle-long-legs and taken care of. Unfortunately, Wang Zhenjun, the uncle-long-legs, wanted the life of Bai Zhiqiu's father.
Children aged five or six are most trusting, and Wang Zhenjun was his benefactor, so he was naturally defenseless. And for children of this age, premature death is too easy; just a little getting lost can easily lead to their disappearance from this world.
Therefore, when Bai Zhiqiu's father died unexpectedly after getting lost, his soul was successfully summoned by Wang Zhenjun and transformed into a ghost child that brings wealth and fortune. He completely believed that Wang Zhenjun truly couldn't bear to let him go, so he kept him by his side and doted on him. However, after Wang Zhenjun's child was born, he fully realized how wrong he was.
To truly love a child is not to give him the best things in the world, but to teach him how to become an excellent person.
Bai Zhiqiu's father kept making comparisons, and finally came to an outcome that almost made him collapse, that is, his adoptive father Wang Zhenjun had never loved him.
It only took a moment for the ghost boy to become corrupted and filled with resentment. From that moment on, Bai Zhiqiu's father turned from a pure ghost boy into a real evil ghost.
"What happened next?" Yu Jiuyin felt that the matter did not make sense. Bai Zhiqiu's father turned into a fierce ghost. How did the fate of the Wang family change?
"Greed is insatiable, like a snake swallowing an elephant." At this point, Bai Zhiqiu's eyes flashed with hatred. "The Wang family has more than one ghost child like my father. The jade token you saw wasn't something the Wang family dug out of the ground; it was sold to them by someone else. Its only use is to forcibly transfer the ghost child's soul to someone else."
Bai Zhiqiu's father was the first ghost child to follow Wang Zhenjun, so he knew more.
It's widely known in metaphysical circles that ghost children can increase their luck, but few know that their luck is limited. Raising them freely, without any desires or demands, as Yu Jiuyin does, can yield the greatest benefits. The Wang family is on the verge of decline, and even ten or a hundred ghost children, let alone one, would be difficult to restore. Furthermore, if a ghost child's luck isn't replenished promptly after its energy is drained, it will ultimately transform into a fierce ghost.
The jade token had only one function, which was to transfer the evil spirit to a living person, and extract the living person's soul through the jade token.
"Wang Zhenjun is doing charity, isn't he? It's not about doing good deeds or commemorating my father's adopted son. He's just looking for a vessel to deal with the ghost children who have turned into evil spirits, and at the same time, he has more innocent children who can become ghost children and help him maintain the Wang family's wealth."
Bai Zhiqiu's explanation was clear. Wang Zhenjun used the guise of charity to reach out to orphans and children from impoverished villages desperate to escape the mountains. He selected suitable targets based on their birth dates, then, once they fully trusted the Wang family, even considering them their benefactors, a horrific death would befall them.
The period of time it takes for ghost children to turn into evil spirits is not too short, so Wang Zhenjun has plenty of time to deceive the innocent hearts of these children. After choosing an opportunity, he will put the jade token on them, and at night the evil spirits will transform into clothes and look for substitutes.
However, this kind of attempt to change fate against the will of heaven is against the will of heaven. The moment it succeeds, the evil spirit will be shattered, and those dead children will become the next tool to take over the fortune of the Wang family.
"Do you know where the jade token came from?" Yu Jiuyin asked.
"I don't know. My father left me no memory of the origin of the jade token. The only piece of information I have is that Wang Zhenjun obtained it by chance."
"The ghost child in my family just fell into depravity and got the jade token. The timing is quite delicate." Yu Jiuyin raised the corner of his lips, "Thank you, you are very helpful. I have one last question, Qiuqiu, how did you know about your father?"
"Devils have a legacy, unless my father, a fierce ghost, forced my biological mother." Bai Zhiqiu's eyes were red. "Devils are against human ethics and are intolerable. My mother said that on the day I was born, my father died trying to save my life. My mother raised me until I was five, but she couldn't bear it and passed away. It was my father who picked me up, but now he has his daughter. I am so useless. If I had known earlier, this wouldn't have happened. It's all my fault."
When Bai Zhiqiu mentioned his biological parents and adoptive sister, tears immediately fell from his eyes. Yu Jiuyin sighed and reached out to hold the child in his arms.
This child had a particularly difficult life, and the few good days he had were like sugar mixed with broken glass. He did kill his stepmother out of spite, but it was also out of a desire to protect his sister.
"Let's go to the Wang family. We have to meet Wang Zhenjun's grandson and see what this kind family that has been eating the blood of others for so many years looks like."
Yu Jiuyin's tone was cold, and Rongqing's expression was equally serious. He had previously asked someone to investigate the Wang family, but these details were completely unsuccessful. In Rongqing's opinion, it was not so much that Wang Zhenjun was cautious, but rather that the people he had were useless.
If this had happened to me or Yu Jiuyin, we'd have seen through the whole story the moment we got the list of children Wang Zhenjun sponsored had died. However, the irony was that Zhao Chang and his team, who had also investigated the situation of sponsored children, hadn't reported this data at all. Perhaps they weren't as meticulous as Xu Wang and Lao San in Yu Jiuyin's haunted house.
It didn't matter to him before, but now with Yu Jiuyin, Rongqing stared at him for a while, thinking about how to train his own team members after the case was over, and then packed up and went out with Yu Jiuyin.
Both of them were quick and efficient, and they had finished cleaning up in just five minutes.
This time, the people who followed them to Wang's house were still from the Special Case Investigation Team. However, Yu Jiuyin sensitively discovered that, except for the five people who had played the spirit summoning game with them before, Zhao Chang and the others were unexpectedly gone.
"Mr. Yu, I'm really sorry for what happened yesterday. Team leader, we..." The five of them walked up to Yu Jiuyin and Rongqing, all with guilty expressions on their faces. They first apologized to Yu Jiuyin, then stared at Rongqing in silence, not knowing what to say for a long time.
"You were quite smart yesterday, so just follow me today." Rong Qing said coldly and got into the car with Yu Jiuyin.
In the car, Rong Qing saw Yu Jiuyin staring at him and could roughly guess what he was thinking. He couldn't help but feel helpless, "Jiuyin, what misunderstanding do you have about me?"
Rongqing understood that Yu Jiuyin was wondering why he had been so patient before, but now he was so cold to those people, even driving Zhao Chang and the others away. So Rongqing had to explain the whole story to him.
"My identity is clear. I'm neither human nor ghost. No matter who is in the group, they may not be truly respectful to me. Those five originally followed Luo Qiu and they still have a conscience, so I continue to take them with me. I think it's my duty to Luo Qiu. As for the others, they haven't crossed the line before and they are decent clerks, so I keep them."
"What about your injury?" Yu Jiuyin always thought that Rongqing was injured because he was protecting those idiots. Now it seems that he had misunderstood.
Rongqing's answer confirmed his suspicions. "It was indeed because of them, but it wasn't for protection, it was for the greater good. The situation was very complicated at the time. I'll explain it to you slowly when I have time."
"Yeah." Yu Jiuyin nodded, not wanting to get to the bottom of it, but he still hadn't come to his senses.
Rong Qing also smiled, "Jiuyin, I'm not you. I don't care not because I'm gentle, but because I don't care at all."
"Me neither," Yu Jiuyin subconsciously wanted to refute, but Rongqing hugged him in his arms.
"I don't care why you always pick up children from my house. I want to ask you, Bai Zhiqiu, if you plan to pick up children from the haunted house in the future?"
" "It hit the nail on the head, Yu Jiuyin was completely unable to refute it.
Rong Qing sighed, "Let's sleep for a while on the way. I don't know what will happen when we get to the Wang family."
"But I don't want to sleep now." Yu Jiuyin was really energetic at this moment, but was hit in the face by Rongqing's words.
"Don't you have a headache, chest tightness, or discomfort here or there? Don't force it. I'll hold you and you can close your eyes and go to sleep."
Rong Qing spoke these words fluently, almost perfectly recreating Yu Jiuyin's usual unreasonable behavior.
As the saying goes, you lift a rock and drop it on your own feet. Yu Jiuyin couldn't find any angle to refute, so he spent the rest of the journey with his eyes closed and resting.
But there was still an idea in his mind. Yu Jiuyin always felt that Rongqing didn't care before, but now suddenly started to care, in fact, it was all for himself.
The Wang family and the Rong family were located to the east and west, forming a diagonal relationship. When Yu Jiuyin and Rong Qing arrived at the Wang family's old house, a full hour had passed.
I don’t know if it’s because Wang Zhenjun, the head of the family, has done so many evil things, but this old house that looks so grand and magnificent is now lifeless and even has a somewhat inexplicable look of decay.
Yu Jiuyin stood at the door and watched for a while, and couldn't help shaking his head.
"The Wang family ultimately lost." His words were ambiguous, but Rongqing could understand the meaning.
Feng Shui involves observing the flow of Qi, a technique used to predict a homeowner's future fortune. However, the Wang family's old house's Qi had almost completely dissipated, and even a lingering, obscure, dead aura lingered, signaling its end.
So it's never too late to pay back. If Wang Zhenjun hadn't done anything so wicked, the Wang family would have risen again in five generations. Now that the disaster has spread to his descendants, the Wang family is doomed to be forgotten by the world.
The two exchanged glances, both feeling a bit sad. But the case had to be solved, and Wang Zhenjun had to be found. After all, Wang Zhenjun was the only one who knew the secret of the jade token. If Bai Zhiqiu was right, then the convenience store case was most likely the work of a ghost brought out by the ghost child after Wang Zhenjun was attacked by the ghost.
After all, the function of the jade token sounds very strange.
"I'm Rongqing. Wang Lin asked me to come over at this time." Rongqing rang the doorbell at the gate of the old house, but no one responded.
Could something have happened? Rongqing and Yu Jiuyin looked at each other, and this was their first reaction.
The remaining five members of the special case team were also quite smart. Seeing this, they brought tools and pried the door open.
However, the moment the door opened, they were surprised to find that the old house was spotless, without even a hint of ghosts. What was even more disconcerting was that everyone was asleep.
From the servants to Wang Zhenjun's grandson Wang Lin, all of them were like wax figures in a wax museum, maintaining a fixed posture with their eyes closed and falling asleep.
At first glance, it seems weird and you can't tell anything, but after careful observation, a chill will instantly cover your heart.
Because these postures all have hidden meanings, they represent the eighteen kinds of punishments in the eighteen levels of hell where Yama punishes the wicked. And the posture of Wang Zhenjun's grandson Wang Lin is exactly the same as the torture posture in the eighteenth level of the Knife and Saw Hell, which punishes those who abduct other people's children and women and engage in unfair transactions.
At the same time, the door behind them, which had been pried open by force, was closed silently without anyone noticing.
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